My girlfriend loves reading and writing fan fic. Doctor Who, Storm Hawks, Harry Potter. It's just dreadful. Now though she's gotten into "RumBelle" fanfic which is Rumpkestiltskin and Belle related stories from Once Upon a Time. And she will go on and on about that. Seriously it's the one thing that really irks me about her. She wants to enjoy it by herself, fine, but don't drag me into it. Especially when I've let her know what I think of fanfic. It's a dark hole of fandom that I wish didn't exist.

Richard_The_Clown:My girlfriend loves reading and writing fan fic. Doctor Who, Storm Hawks, Harry Potter. It's just dreadful. Now though she's gotten into "RumBelle" fanfic which is Rumpkestiltskin and Belle related stories from Once Upon a Time. And she will go on and on about that. Seriously it's the one thing that really irks me about her. She wants to enjoy it by herself, fine, but don't drag me into it. Especially when I've let her know what I think of fanfic. It's a dark hole of fandom that I wish didn't exist.

Not all fanfic are crap. I've read some CSI and Cold Case fanfic that I wouldn't mind getting turned into real episodes. Unfortunately, those are only a few gyms in a mostly shiat pile.

Richard_The_Clown:My girlfriend loves reading and writing fan fic. Doctor Who, Storm Hawks, Harry Potter. It's just dreadful. Now though she's gotten into "RumBelle" fanfic which is Rumpkestiltskin and Belle related stories from Once Upon a Time. And she will go on and on about that. Seriously it's the one thing that really irks me about her. She wants to enjoy it by herself, fine, but don't drag me into it. Especially when I've let her know what I think of fanfic. It's a dark hole of fandom that I wish didn't exist.

Really? You're going to judge your girlfriend when your job is to be a clown?

In a capitalist economy, the market rewards those who produce that which the market will consume.

Im assuming One Direction is a boy band? If so, he "boy band" genre has been around ever since society deemed that teenage girls didn't deserve death by stoning or burning over their sexual fantasies. That it has spread to "literature" is merely a response to market forces. Were it available, subby's Mom would have been first in line to buy fan-fic about the Beatles.

GAT_00:MurphyMurphy: Old enough to know better: Jebus, if this is the stuff that gets published, I hate to imagine what horrors must lurk in the reject pile.

The sad part is the next Ulysses, Gatsby or Lolita is probably sitting in the reject pile.

This is the next Lolita. Well, technically Twilight was. The pedos dream romance story.

Assuming that wasn't a joke, that's just not an informed analysis.

Lolita is a cross section of behavior and emotion. Drawing borders and parallels between lust and the many layers of love while also exposing the cracks in our perceptions of each. It's actual literature.

The subject matter is taboo but that is a vehicle for the exchange with the reader, not the message itself. Unlike the comparison material.

The comparison is a cheap dime novel indulgence. It's like comparing Danielle Steele paperbacks to titans like Dickens or Hawthorne.

Old enough to know better:Jebus, if this is the stuff that gets published, I hate to imagine what horrors must lurk in the reject pile.

My sister just wrote a book about vampires using it as parable for environmental issues. *Sigh* It's actually good. No cliches, the definite sexual tension is actually adult and it isn't idiotic or trashy. It's probably never going to publish.

Britney Spear's Speculum:GAT_00: So, same publisher that did 50 Shades of Grey, which if you'll recall was a Twilight fanfic, or a competing one hoping to cash in?

This

Yeah, what scurrilous outfit is dumb enuff to publish this type of trash?

*click*

16-year-old U.K. teen Emily Baker is the envy of not only One Direction fans, but wannabe authors everywhere. She has just inked a deal with Penguin to publish her fanfiction story about a teen who is in an intense romantic love triangle with two of the boys from One Direction.

quatchi:Britney Spear's Speculum: GAT_00: So, same publisher that did 50 Shades of Grey, which if you'll recall was a Twilight fanfic, or a competing one hoping to cash in?

This

Yeah, what scurrilous outfit is dumb enuff to publish this type of trash?

*click*

16-year-old U.K. teen Emily Baker is the envy of not only One Direction fans, but wannabe authors everywhere. She has just inked a deal with Penguin to publish her fanfiction story about a teen who is in an intense romantic love triangle with two of the boys from One Direction.

Funbags:In a capitalist economy, the market rewards those who produce that which the market will consume.

Im assuming One Direction is a boy band? If so, he "boy band" genre has been around ever since society deemed that teenage girls didn't deserve death by stoning or burning over their sexual fantasies. That it has spread to "literature" is merely a response to market forces. Were it available, subby's Mom would have been first in line to buy fan-fic about the Beatles.

Plus, in this era where anyone with an Internet connection can be a published author, it's inevitable that there will be more crap in literature. It doesn't diminish the good stuff one bit. You can still find good literature, your rights have not infringed because a moron can be published.